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Focus on wellbeing raises staff commitment at North Hertfordshire College
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 06/10/2008
By introducing a health and wellbeing focus to a reinvigorated staff development programme, North Hertfordshire College has increased its workforce’s motivation, improved organisational performance and reduced absence levels.

Arcadia Housing's research helps focus its staff retention efforts
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 06/10/2008
The measures being taken by social housing landlord Arcadia Housing to reduce staff turnover focus on the role of line managers in inducting and managing new recruits and redesigning its leavers' survey.

Survey: Competencies in the workplace
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 06/10/2008
The flexibility of the competency approach is attracting increasing numbers of employers, but this can also make competency frameworks difficult to understand and use. IRS's study of 210 employers looks at current provision and the ways in which most of these pitfalls can be avoided.

Rethink uses good practice to employ people with mental ill health
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 22/09/2008
Mental health charity Rethink's successful measures to help recruit and retain individuals with mental ill health provide a model for other employers, particularly because its approach ensures that employees with mental health problems have the same absence levels as other employees.

Diversity-led recruitment and retention strategy at Morgan Stanley
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 22/09/2008
Global investment bank Morgan Stanley has spent the past seven years implementing a far-reaching diversity strategy that aims to recruit and retain the most talented staff.

Survey: Christmas working practice
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 22/09/2008
Planning and organising Christmas closure and celebrations is a complex affair; our latest biennial survey on employer practice reports on what employers have planned for 2008.

Improving human capital performance at Co-operative Financial Services
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 08/09/2008
Co-operative Financial Services has used human capital management to achieve a high-performance culture in its organisation.

Improved absence reporting boosts Orangebox's attendance culture
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 08/09/2008
Office furniture manufacturer Orangebox has reduced short-term absences and strengthened its attendance culture by shifting responsibility for absence reporting and recording to its HR staff.

Recruiting and retaining volunteers
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 08/09/2008
The recruitment and retention of volunteers raises many of the same challenges as those involving paid workers, but the solutions may differ.

How employer branding can improve recruitment
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 26/08/2008
Enhancing an employer's brand can help it improve recruitment; here we explain how, using financial services firm AXA's initiative as an example.

Survey: Employee communications
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 26/08/2008
While employers' approaches to internal communication continue to range from the formal to the ad hoc, our survey identifies an increase in newly established consultative bodies and a steady flow of organisations tightening up their informing and consulting arrangements.

Albion Chemicals Group invests in training
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 26/08/2008
Albion Chemicals Group refocused its training activity in order to integrate with its new parent company while maintaining and developing its local customer service infrastructure.

Absence rates in 2007: findings from the main surveys
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 04/08/2008
According to IRS's round-up of the main sources of attendance data, absence levels showed no increase in 2007, but there is still considerable scope for improvement in terms of implementing effective absence management.

Survey: Equal opportunities policies
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 04/08/2008
This IRS survey of equality and diversity policies examines the arrangements in place at 150 organisations and looks at how they are being reviewed in line with legislative developments.

Trade union recognition (4): working with trade unions
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 15/07/2008
The final article in our four-part series on trade union recognition examines the nature of the working relationship between unions and employers.

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